heroku-config

⚠️ Disclaimer ⚠️

Running this code has the potential to delete your configurations if misused.

Specifically, the -o flag will overwrite values at the destination. Only use that if the source has more up to date info and you're feeling brave. Otherwise, this merges configs and is fairly safe. Just thought you should know.

Also, the -c flag will delete values that didn't exist locally when you pushed. Only use it if you know that.

Usage

You can install the package by running

heroku plugins:install heroku-config

This package includes two commands:

heroku config:pull: Writes the contents of heroku config into a local file

heroku config:push: Writes the contents of a local file into heroku config

Run heroku help config:pull and heroku help config:push to see a full list of flags.

File Format

There's a lot of flexibility when it comes to how you can format your file. Key capitalization can go either way and there can be spacing around the = on one, both, or neither side. There can also be a leading export if you want to use the same file to populate your local environment. Since Heroku runs on linux, variable names must conform to those valid in unix. If you want to use unsupported characters in your var names, run commands with the -e flag. There's also support both unix and windows-style newlines (though only one type per file).

Multiline variables are fine as long as they're surrounded by "

All of the following are valid lines:

#comment

NODE_ENV= test

source =local

job = programming

DB_STRING=mongo://blah@thing.mongo.thing.com:4567

export THING=3

multiline="this can have

as many lines

# comments are still ignored

as it wants"

The following are all invalid lines:

# comment with leading space

bad_key=nono

key with-dash=andspace

multiline='bad because

it uses

single quotes'

Development

You'll need Node version >= 6.0. If you want to match exactly, check out the heroku cli's node version here. I like nvm for managing multiple node versions.

After cloning, follow these instructions to run locally! I welcome pull requests with fixes or new features.